Happy Holidays from All of Us at Gluten-Free Trading Company

The owners and staff of Gluten-Free Trading Company would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very happy holiday season. We appreciate the enthusiastic support we've received from our customers this year and look forward to serving you in 2010.

All the Ingredients for an Old-Fashioned Holiday

While we all enjoy giving and receiving gifts, it's our relationships with friends and family that truly make the holiday season special. What a great time to rediscover some old-fashioned holiday traditions, like decorating a batch of Christmas cookies with the kids, sharing a loaf of homemade gluten-free holiday bread with a friend, or chatting with guests over a slice of holiday cake baked in your own oven. Ready to get started? Read on for info about seasonal baking mixes, edible decorations, and other ingredients for an old-fashioned holiday.

Sugar Cookie Mixes

Looking for a holiday time-saver? Making Christmas cookies from a mix let's you spend less time sifting and more time decorating! We offer 5 different sugar cookie mixes. Click on any of the product names for ingredients and other details:

Cherrybrook Kitchen Sugar Cookie Mix. Just the right blend of sugars is the secret to these satisfying sugar cookies. Top them off with frosting for double the flavor and fun. Great for people with egg allergies as it requires no eggs. Also free of dairy and nuts.

Tastefully Gluten-Free Sugar Cookie Mix. A versatile mix that can be used to make traditional sugar cookies, fruit pizza, thumbprint or cut-out cookies - and more. Great for making Christmas cookies--just roll out and add your favorite frosting and sprinkles. Just add butter or dairy-free substitute, oil, vanilla and egg.

Gingerbread Mixes

Gingerbread people, ginger cake. Two wonderful tastes that take us back to 19th Century Europe. We have mixes for both:

Gluten-Free Pantry Spice Cake & Gingerbread Mix. This ginger cake is delightful when served with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream and makes a flavorful base for almost any topping. Made with simple ingredients like rice flour, brown sugar, and ginger, the mix contains no wheat, gluten, or corn. It can also be used to make cupcakes or carrot cake. Get it while it lasts: this mix is being discontinued by the manufacturer.

Garden Fields Stuffing Cubes

It's a first! We finally guessed about right about the quantity of stuffing cubes to order for the holiday season. We made it through Thanksgiving without completely running out, and that means we have a limited supply of Garden Fields Stuffing Cubes available for your Christmas hen, turkey, pheasant, duck or goose.

Try these delicious seasoned gluten-free stuffing cubes as part of your holiday feast, and you'll soon discover that they taste great anytime you serve poultry or pork. Although we stock this as a seasonal item, the product has a shelf life of 9 months or more and we'll continue to offer them as long as our supply holds out.

New Breakfast Cereals from CerealVit

CerealVit is a line of gluten-free cereals from Italy. Although the company is new to the US, they have been in business for almost 30 years. Their focus is on healthy, natural cereals with rich taste, high nutritional value, and attention to quality. All of the CerealVit products are made with limited use of sugars and no added fats, colorings, artificial flavors or chemicals. Three products are now available in the US:

Benevit. Light multi-grain flakes made from organic rice and buckwheat.

Organic Corn Flakes. Not your average corn flake: they are extra-thick to maintain their crunch, with the toasty flavor of rice malt and no added sugar.

Barkat Honey Cake Mark-Down

Barkat Honey Cakes are moist, tasty cakes that make a great afternoon snack. In addition to being gluten-free they are milk/casein free and vegetarian.

We ordered quite a few to replace the ready-to-eat cakes formerly sold under the Glutano brand name (they are made in the same facility using a similar recipe), but customers have been a little more timid about the new product than we expected. Consequently, some of the Honey Cakes have gone past their "best before" date (11/02/09). They normally sell for $6.19, but we have marked them down to $3.49 while supplies last. As a further incentive, we are offering them FREE with any order over $50.00. To take advantage of that offer when ordering online, use voucher code BARKAT349 during the online checkout process. In the store, look for the Barkat Honey Cake display near the register.

Web Store Shopping Tip

We recently added a Product Search function to our online shopping website. It's a quick and easy way to find what you're looking for among the over 1000 products on our website. You'll find the Search for Products link at the bottom of the Online Shopping home page. Just click that link and then enter the description of the item you want. For example, suppose you're looking for lemon cake mix. Just go to the search page, enter lemon cake in the first box and click the search button at the bottom. In an instant, you'll find all 5 lemon cake products that are currently in our catalog!